I read somewhere that one could increase their inherent happiness by writing down three things about their day which made them happy. Doing this for two weeks increased happiness for six months. I like this idea, but I think I'll use a 3+1 option where I also get to rant about something as well. What can I say? Ranting makes me happy. And blogging this way, no one has to listen against their will.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

They Eyes Have It

And what they have is redness.

Here's me during surgery:
( I have a DVD of the process. I haven't looked at it yet. Still too fresh.)

Eye pictures after the jump.

Before, with the aging Kate Spades.

At the next day followup appointment, shortly after waking from a drug induced stupor:

Later on "Day After" eyes, a little worse than a hangover, starting to look scary
How I rig up to sleep. The inner bottom holes are in the way for reading in bed. They may have done that on purpose.
They're looking better today

I've been doing all they eyedrops and not touching my eyes much, but today, my left eye started getting some double vision so I wonder if I mucked up my lens placement. I'm going to add yet more drops and go to sleep and hope for the best. i really, really, really don't want to do that surgery again. It was not painful, but it was rather more traumatic than I'd expected. And wearing the shields makes it hard to read in bed.

I've been updating twitter as I go along, if you're just reading the blog entries, look for the "otter pops" sidebar, if you'd like more.

Eyes aren't too itchy. When they get itchy, eyedrops take care of it. I'd already invested in eyedrops because former contact solution really dried out my eyes. I've spent the past couple years undoing that dryness damage with rewetting drops. When my eyes get dry now, it feels like I'm wearing contacts.

There is still some double vision in my left eye. My 1 week followup showed my eyes looking normal and healthy, and the doubling makes the vision 20/25 in the left eye, with some astygmatism, but it's still possible that it will smooth out in the next month.

So far so good. My near vision is getting LOTS better. I can read fine. (whew!) It still doesn't quite feel real yet.